GRE Word List
RIDDLE
a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum
The meaning of the word riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |